About Sustainable NOW
Summary
This 3-year project (September 2008 - August 2011) focuses on strengthening the role of local and provincial governments, as political and administrative bodies acting in an exemplary manner and guiding communities in the sustainable energy transition period.
It addresses non-technical aspects, capacity building, peer exchange and reviews in order to create an environment of tangible results with an extensive audience of local and regional actors. Measures imply an in-depth strategy and involvement of strong local and regional partners as well as EU-wide networks to implement ambitious climate and energy targets.
Learning communities mainly benefit, through improved capacity and use of instruments that address development, implementation and evaluation of sustainable energy community concepts that have a longer-term sustainable impact. The use of local resources, involvement of diverse stakeholder and improve community resilience from a climate protection and energy security perspective are underlying aspects.
Results
- Improved capacity of Local Governments, using constructive interactions of learning and frontrunner communities, peer-to-peer exchanges, study visits, capacity development workshops, and staff trainee programmes.
- Energy guidance package with instruments to support Local Energy Action Plan (LEAP) implementation, incl. Integrated climate and energy management and a Local Energy Action Plan wizard for integrated energy action programmes.
- Implementation of 5 LEAPs and related projects in partner communities.
- Improved awareness of citizens & local politicians on sustainable energy, for individuals and roles of Local Governments as community leaders and asset managers.
- Widespread European dissemination with a special focus on Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom.
More information on Sustainable NOW can be found in the project leaflet.
